The Box

What did you learn from the dead?
To turn cold in stages to stage
bleed an invisible instant goddamn
bleeding to heart to get off your
chest to neck and stomach
blow it right out of the hole hard to piss off how does it go
how does it go goes stone stone deaf to so cold so
so we heard them last night shriek at each other the bejeezus though nobody hours heard the shots, you?
Past tense of shoot also called scattergun also a shot of clear liquid
an injection to interject. You?
Oh I gave it a shot resolved my greatest desire
is mean means to go
home a marked entry an engraved—no cloned—entry to how do
you sleep how do you recognize me now I’ll
do to you do to you shotgun I mean hotshot I will I’ll do it I’m sick
of you yeah yeah then go ‘head I’m serious asshole like you
care to miscalculate the command of the exit wound to miss
fire also revolve, er, volver, also
called ghost word yeah gimme you faker you way to take
off—shit (past tense of shoot)—
go now I’m in sight.